A Shot of the Oread
Was waiting to pick the spouse up not too long ago from an event she had at the Oread. Decided to snap a photo for an edit.
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It starts once again
This week brings with it a couple of things, one of which is the beginning of the school year! What?! "It's barely August!" I hear you say. Yes, yes it is. We've had one helluva short Summer, filled with band camps and choir camps and play practice and musical practice and this and that....non stop fun. There has been very little time to take a breath in between. Our youngest will be going into…
Weekly Update and Links of Interest - Week 29
I'm a couple days late and a few dollars short on getting this post put together. I would say that you could complain and get your money back, but I think we all know that there is no actual transaction here. No funds changing hands. No harm no foul, so they say. It's been a moderately warm handful of days and we've even been lucky enough to have had a bit of rain over the last part of the…
MZ-NH700 - One of a few
Sony MD Walkman MZ-NH700 Minidisc Player I'm not really sure how long I've had this thing, it's been over a decade at this point. It was the last Minidisc unit that I purchased. The first was a basic NetMD device that I bought new, back when everyone else was getting cheap little MP3 units. I wanted something a bit better and fell in love with the utility of these things - the ability to basically…
Some Wednesday Thoughts
With the current week at the midway point, I just wanted to take a bit of time to get some words down on the screen. It's been a very busy week and it does not look like it's going to be letting up any time soon. Tomorrow, the twins have their first dress rehearsal for the musical (it's Once Upon a One More Time , for those that either care or were wondering). We might go, but I don't know that…
Weekly Update and Links of Interest - Week 28
It's Saturday, July 18 and I'm actually sort of on some kind of roll here and not overly late with with week's update. Imagine that. We received some new this week at work that pretty much backed up everything that we had expected to hear. Not really anything that I can discuss, but it's great news for us and should - in the long term - save us a decent amount of money on licenses and…
A very one sided conversation
My wife has been trying, for significantly longer than what should be expected or required, to get a prescription filled at CVS. It's a covered Rx under our insurance. It's been approved by her doctor. It has no off-script uses and is only really good for one thing, and there aren't a whole helluva lot of options for this. The kicker here is that CVS Pharmacy is the corp that provides our…
Weekly Update and Links of Interest - Week 27
Today is Sunday, July 12, 2026. It is also the last day of my vacation. Well, stay-cation really. I've been off since Thursday the 2nd of July and - if I'm being honest here - I'm not really ready to "go back to work". It's unusual for me to feel this way, I don't do vacations. I don't like time away from work. I'm not a workaholic, I just like to keep things the way they are. Vacation is change,…
Last Weeks Links of Interest
Welcome to the post-fourth-of-july post! Insofar as family things go, we did not really do a whole lot yesterday. It's tough to get into any kind of celebratory spirit when the country (world?) has basically gone to shit. It's pretty sad, the Fourth of July (and Halloween) are our favorite holidays around the house. We did wind up picking a few things up for the kiddos, however, it is just really…
An update on my small Guix journey
Today is the Fourth of July Eve , also known as July third. For those of us in the States, today is basically part one of the holiday. All the offices are closed and it's not like any business is going to get done. I took Thursday - yesterday - off, as well as next week, for my vacation time so I've got absolutely nothing going on at this point. Right now I'm currently waiting on my latest guix…
Notes from last week
There was not a whole lot going over the last week, besides trying to keep from melting under the obsessive heat that we seem to be under these days. Yesterdays was pretty good, despite getting off to something of a rough start. Came downstairs after mowing the lawn to - finally! - grab my morning coffee, only to find out that there was not even enough left for me to fill my mug. Talk about…
Some late notes from last week
Long weekends are almost as bad a short vacations - they just aren't quite long enough, but they are plenty long enough to make one not want to get back into the swing of things. Not to mention that getting everything caught back up can be exhausting to the point that you either need a vacation or another long weekend to rest up from your Monday back. This last weekend we were able to attend the…
Let's give GUIX System another try
It's Friday, so that must mean that it's time to make an attempt at some kind of productivity around the house. Not really. What I have come to a decision on, however, is that I'm getting ready to replace my Arch-derived laptops (well, some of the older ones, anyhow) with other options. I'm sure that everyone has heard about the kerfuffle surrounding the Archlinux AUR . Thankfully, from what I…
Things I used to do
I was thinking earlier today, after having received yet another notification on my phone, that I should do something about changing the notification alert sounds on some of my android applications. You know, to make it a tad easier to know what is coming in, with the hopes of an easier way to separate the so-called wheat from the chaff. That got me to realize that it's been a really long time…
Week 24 - Links of Interest
It's another Saturday morning, more or less, so I guess it's time for the second edition of my Weekly Links of Interest . Not a whole lot going on at this time, besides a ton of rain and otherwise humid cruddy weather. Don't take me wrong, the rain is a great thing and I'd much rather it rain than not. It just means that I've got a smaller and smaller window to get the yard work done. I'm just…